Sr Data Analytics Engineer

Job Description:

What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you’ll be part of a team with a no-limits mindset that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We’re the world’s leading research and advisory company that steers clients toward the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else. Our associates enjoy a collaborative work environment with exceptional training and career development. If you like working with a curious, supportive, high-performing team, Gartner is the place for you. 
 

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About the role:

Gartner needs a well-rounded and motivated Senior Data Analytics Engineer who will be a part of the CDO Platform team.  The CDO platform team is responsible for innovating the platform on which CDO products are delivered, optimizing performance and cost.

CDO organization builds data solutions leveraging the latest technology and methodologies to analyze, develop, model and verify interfaces, applications, logic and services that help solve data challenges.

What You’ll Do:

• Implement best practices for design, architecture and implementation of high-performance, scalable, highly available and optimized big data platform on cloud.
• Design and automate the deployment of our data pipelines and applications to our data environment to support data scientists and researchers with their reporting and data requirements.
• Build workflows using data from a wide variety of sources, including on premise databases and external data sources with rest APIs and harvesting tools.
• Drive automation efforts across the data analytics team utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Configuration Management, and Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) tools such as Jenkins.
• Work with internal infrastructure teams on monitoring, security, and configuration of datalake environment and applications
• Collaborate with internal business units and data science teams on business requirements, data access, processing/transformation and reporting needs and leverage existing and new tools to provide solutions; Effectively support and partner with businesses on implementation, technical issues and training on the data ecosystem
• Work with team on managing Azure resources (Databricks, ADF pipelines, etc.) and AWS resources (EMR, ECS clusters, etc.) and continuously improve deployment process of our applications
• Work with administrative resources and support provisioning, monitoring, configuration and maintenance of tools and services.
• Promote the integration of new cloud technologies and continuously evaluate new tools that will improve the organization’s capabilities while leading to lower total cost of operation.
• Work with the team to implement data governance, access control and identify and reduce security risks.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related technical fields.
• 3-5 year’s experience in software development, including significant experience in Big Data and/or Cloud Services
• Expertise in Azure cloud services, Linux Operating Systems, Shell scripting and DevOps/CI/CD frameworks.
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery tools like Jenkins and infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Knowledge and experience of Azure data related services such as Azure Databricks, Datafactory, EventHub, ADLS, etc.; Self learner and ability to experiment and adopt new tools to build more efficient processes.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including RDS, MS SQL, DynamoDB, etc. and with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Oozie, Airflow, etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, Scala, Shell scripting, etc.
• Experience with big data tools and services preferred: Spark, Hive, etc.
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Spark-Streaming, Event Hub is a plus.
• Passion for understanding and working with large amounts of data (structured and unstructured), building data pipelines for ETL workloads from internal and external sources and leveraging tools that extract raw data into useful information and insights utilizing Data Science, Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI) and visualization tools to support business needs.
• Experience working with fast-paced operations/dev teams and DevOps
• Ability to take vague requirements and transform them into deliverables
   

Who you are:

• Good combination of technical and interpersonal skills with strong written and verbal communication; detail-oriented with the ability to work independently.
• Takes initiative on improvements and testing results.
• Consultant mindset – identify, communicate, and act on issues and initiatives
• Able to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously in an organized and timely manner.
• Detailed oriented, with the ability to plan, prioritize, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to work independently, as well as part of a team
   

What we offer:

In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including:

• An upbeat, positive culture. Integrity, objectivity, collaboration, results and a no-limits mindset are central to our values
• Limitless growth. We work with you to help you meet your goals and advance within the company
• Encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo
• Exposure to industry leading training and development
• Performance based recognition and rewards

Who are we:

Gartner is the world’s leading research and advisory company, offering information, advice and tools for business leaders. We provide objective and invaluable insights to our C-level executive clients, where we guide them to achieve the mission-critical priorities of their organization. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and now employ over 17,000 associates globally and support 12,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

Our awards and accolades:

Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020
Forbes America’s Best Employers 2018, 2019; Best Management Consulting Firms 2017, 2018, 2019
Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index Best Places to Work for LBGTQ Equality 2018, 2019 & 2020

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